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Try not to laugh, but I have a couple of items ( I say items because they have not been identified yet so I have no clue if they are rocks or actual fossils) that have been scrubbed with Dawn and a toothbrush and left to dry. Today I was cleaning some others and went to move some I cleaned the day before, and noticed with my hands wet but clean that some actually felt like they were sticky? Just about to the point of holding it’s self vertical from my finger. If my hands were dry…. These feel and act like any of the others laying there. Does this indicate anything other than strange that is. Thank you
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Fossils along the Notikewin River in Northern Alberta
JustPlainPetrified posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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Hi New member here , John from Wirral Hope you can help with ID of following , images attached. During a recent visit to Anglesey , N Wales I happened upon this small rock . Unremarkable at first until on picking it up I noticed it was pretty heavy [ 338gms] There also apppear to me multiple micro fossils on the upper and lower surface together with traces of iron. Size is 90x50x35. On close examination it has something of a sparkle. I am familiar with most types of fossil , but this one has me stumped.It has an almost meteorite like appearance. Any ideas please Many thanks John
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I came across this place not too long ago and recently made another trip, I am in love with this site, the colors, the layers, the in your face geology, the fossils, couldn't ask for more. Pocket map says this area is intersection of Woodbine, Grayson, and QAL. Showing in pictures the series of hills running east to west, #1 west end #4 east end. and various shots closer. Forgot to take picture of first hill on western side there was only Woodbine exposure that had layers of intense purple sandstone and what I'm calling snowflake selenite. The far east side was only Woodbine but in the middle hills were several layers of Grayson, top one was more yellow soft and crumbly, below a layer of more white and harder then below that all shades of grey and blue. Along the very top of hills you can see the red Woodbine. Will make separate post for Grayson fossils there are too many pictures, fossils, and questions. This is great learning opportunity so any additional information will be appreciated. Not too many fossils from Woodbine but it's visually difficult for me, everything is red black orange and blends together. Found gastropod, ammonites and various oysters being eaten by selenite but I like the sparkle, and bivalve #6, is this Pinna? Picture #5 was just a single odd place with sand balls. Found what I'm calling chocolate selenite and big chunks of rock imbedded with bivalves and encrusted in white, assuming it's gypsum? I liked the contrast in colors. Including picture of everything found.
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Quite awhile ago I was telling my youngest son I need to cleanup my fossil prep bench and he mentioned that I should make a video of it. Well, I did. Would be a very long video if I didnt break it up into 4 parts. In this video one will see not only just how messy my prep area has become but also see all kinds of fossils including some really neato surprizes. This first part is just over 20 minutes long. Enjoy RB https://youtu.be/rkJ5QiTr2SI
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Had a good time with my club yesterday when down at Batesford Quarry and got a nice haul for a first time down there. Not to many larger shark teeth in the piles but there were millions of regular fossils (mostly spines) but always a welcome sight to behold either way
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Hi all, This may seem like a weird topic but I wanted to ask here because this keeps happening occasionally and I am unsure of what the cause behind it is and whether this could be of any concern. When going through my fossil collection, whether it be putting new specimens up for display, looking through my collection, dusting pieces off, moving them, etc. I occasionally see small translucent white bugs slowly scuttling across the surface of them, I believe that these are springtails as that seems like the only plausible organism to be found there that also has that appearance and body shape. I personally have no issue with the bugs, I like springtails, I think they're fascinating organisms and somewhat cute even. My question is where could all of them be coming from? My understanding is that they primarily feed on fungi and need lots of moisture to thrive, I understand maybe finding a couple of them a few days after pulling fossils fresh from the ground, but some of these seem to come out weeks or even months after these fossils have been laying on my shelves with little to no contact with fresher specimens. My display area is kept clean and dry so I really have no idea where they could bee coming from, is this any cause for concern? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Thanks for looking and any replies, Misha
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Searching for sea urchins in South Limburg with my dog
Mart1980 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A few weeks ago I took the dog (our Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever) to the hills of southern Limburg (the Netherlands) to walk especially around Gulpen and the Malensbos. To look for fossilized sea urchins that can sometimes be found after rainfall. These sea urchins date from the Gulpener chalk (Cretaceous period). Taking the dog on a fossil hunt is wonderful. She enjoys any type of environment. Although it is sometimes annoying that the boss does not continue and just keeps digging. She forgets that I have to wait at every puddle because I have to swim again. In the evening she did her own find of the day, a hedgehog, also prickly. I told her I was looking for 'zeeegels'. I meant another 'egel'. She did her best . In Dutch we use the word 'egel' for both a hedgehog and sea urchin. I found many small pieces of sea urchin, only four that are presentable. These sea urchins are still unprocessed and need to be prepared. Difficult to distinguish the species, I personally think Cardiater sp. and Hemiaster sp. Definitely a successful day, for me and the dog
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Hi All, I live in Ontario Canada and have been collecting locally for a couple years now. I just found this forum, and joined hoping to share knowledge and trade fossils. Thanks!
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I visited an estate sale close to my home. Down in south Central Texas. I picked this "rock" up because it glittered beautifully in the bright sunlight. As I studied the rock, a head began to take shape...
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This rock is full of crystals that catch the light. It could've been a seashell that left this imprint, but I have to wonder if there is more than meets the eye. Any ideas? Please have a look..
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Hello! I found this on Sunday at Saddle Mountain in Eastern Washington. I would love some help with identifying it!
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Hello everyone, I'm looking for a professor in this field or someone with any sufficient knowledge in the matter of question, what can we obtain from looking at a tooth of an animal? The purpose of the question is to learn and design an Image processing algorithm that shall do the work for non-experts who would find a tooth of a fossil. So far, I've come to know it is easy to determine if the animal is carnivorous or herbivorous. But I don't know how to do it myself yet. Any help? -
Hey guys, I grew up hunting for fossilized wood and shell fossils in Northern California. I’d like to get back into it but I don’t know where to start, hoping to learn a lot here. Thanks!
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Hello everyone! I've been looking at this forum for awhile now. I just joined but have read many topics on here to gain insight into some of my finds. I love agate, Jasper and looking for fossils. I always loved rocks but never knew that the ones I found my eye on and kept would be some beautifully unique gems. Thanks in advance for your help and in retro for the knowledge I've gained from a few of you so far!
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Fossils are our passion, and a passion is not just a hobby. It is a kind of lifeline that gives you the opportunity to be who you are allowed to be. I let my passion run its course and it doesn't just stop with collecting. I also look at how I can use fossils practically. So I have now sawn a piece (collotia oxypticha, DeDeux-Sèvres France) which I use as a bookend. Beautiful and useful at the same time. At the same time I started to make a photo frame with fossils incorporated in it. Are there more people who use fossils practically and let their passion resound in the world around them? Let's share some ideas....
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Are those shark tooth real? (gonna buy them)
Dargos posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello It's my pleasure to be a member of your lovely forum I hope someone would help me to know if those shark tooth are real fossils or not, gonna buy them in Cairo, Egypt
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Small collection of fossils from the Potter Farm Formation (Alpena, MI)
Cassandra Tiensivu posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
This is a small sampling of some of the more interesting things to come out of the Potter Farm Formation in Alpena, Michigan via one bucket of screen washed muck. Crinoid pieces: Cystoid segments: Trilobite fragments: A platyceras: Blastoids: Loads of brachiopods: And tentaculites: Not pictured are the over abundance of bryozoans.
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Hello! Help please to identify tooth. I think this tooth is from family Triakidae and probably Triakis or Iago. But I dont know for sure... Length - 2 mm. Paleogene, Eocene (Ypresian or Lutetian). Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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Late-Cretaceous fossils from the Netherlands and written article about them
Fossilsforever posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello all Fossilcollectors! I went fossil hunting in Late-Cretaceous sediments of Limburg (NL). I found some belemnite rostra (Belemnoidea, family Belemnitida, Belemnitellidae) species Belemnitella cf. minor II (Christensen, 1995), Belemnella (pachybelemnella) sumensis/cimbrica, Belemnella (pachybelemnella) obtusa (Schulz, 1979) and (possible) Belemnitella junior (Nowak, 1913). These 'squid-pens' are made of calcite and formed a important part of the animals internal skeleton. Many of them are broken, but also some (almost) complete ones. One is embedded in chalk (with glauconite traces but not 100% sure) and others with chalk remains. Found from the above mentioned species never a complete phragmocone (still two almost complete or molds) or parts of the pro-ostracum (not one, very thin and brittle apparently). Also found one very small belemnite (juvenile?). Other then belemnites, I found a Steinkern of a sea-urchin (Echinocorys sp.) in a stream of water. All of the above mentioned fossils are 72-66 (broader indication) or 70-68/70-67 mya (exacter indication for some layers), years old. Late (late) Campanian, early Maastrichtian. For American collectors: you can collect the Cretaceous belemnite species Belemnitella americana (Morton, 1830) in New Jersey and/or Jurassic belemnites in Wyoming. For British collectors: many places to collect Jurassic belemnites like Cylindroteuthis sp. like places along the Jurassic Coast (Charmouth, Lyme Regis). Important: only search if allowed and follow the regulations. For collectors who are more interested in these ancient squid-like creatures and have some belemnites in their collection: see my written article in the latest number of The Ecphora. http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter
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This Weekend was very busy,saturday afternoon the tide was low and allow a good hunt on the Cap blanc nez with a very grey weather ,heavy rain sometimes a a Mantelliceras picteti from the Cenomanian was here And a Turrilites costatus Big pieces of Calcite time to see the Gault clay Anice pyrite Hoplite from the Albian on the sand small samples to ID inside the clay time to go back on the way :) Today morning with the sun but high tide And before living
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Just came back from Beaumaris Fossil beach and I have a load of fossils, I’d appreciate getting them identified I know that a few are sea urchins, and the shell but I’m just not sure about the other pieces Note: unfortunately I forgot to add a ruler/item for scale
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Hi Guys, I’ve been doing a bit of hunting this summer and thought some of you might like to see what I have found , this trip report is mostly going to focus on finds as in the moment, I wasn’t great at taking photos now I’m not very organised so we aren’t doing this in a chronological order, I’m just going to describe each site separately the bulk of my hunting occurred on the Isle of Wight, so it is only natural that we start there, I’m going to start with one of the less interesting sites, whale chine (an image from the internet) , I stopped here on the way to the needles for an hour and a half, so not long enough to find much. the beach wasn’t scoured so the famous lobster beds were not exposed and I went in not expecting to find much, this was correct but I loved the scenery I started by finding the bone bed that crops up here and at yaverland( I had had success at yaverland before this trip) as this wasn’t so dependant on a good tide, this material is made up of oysters and is supposed to constrain a lot of vertebrate remains. however, I found it far less productive than yaverland so after an hour of splitting bonebed, I checked out some lower greensand boulders, which were rich in shells and other fossils which I mostly left there for others to see. Anyway onto the finds this pictures spans about 60 cm, sorry for lack of scale 1. corals from the greensand boulders, any IDs are welcome 2. Various fish scales from the bonebed 3. a tooth leading into both sides of a rock, requires prep 4. a strange tooth in a different type of material, i am dissolving some of this to see if it is dense with vertebrate remains 5. A hybodont fin spine in cross section ( I have both sides so requires prep) 6. Ignore, it’s a tooth from yaverland 7. a strange tooth in cross section, not sure what I’m going to do with this 8. A croc tooth, very well preserved, needs some prep though, Anyway I’ll check in with more as we continue through the summer, I might want to get some pieces prepped and I am prepping some myself hope you all have a great summer
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Has anyone ever heard of someone finding a solicified jellyfish fossil with a bunch of babies in The Matrix with the adult?
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